Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. Can they be compared to generous wine? The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Sit at his feet with Mary, lean on his breast with John; yea, come with the spouse in the song and say, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine." Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. It was the common place of death. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. Cover it with a cloak? I. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. May God deliver you! "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. What doth he say? I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. John 19:16 . It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. Some of us, indeed, confess that, if we had read this narrative of suffering in a romance, we should have wept copiously, but the story of Christ's sufferings does not cause the excitement and emotion one would expect. Dear friend, if you think that you suffer all that a Christian can suffer; if all God's billows roll over you, yet, remember, there is not one drop of wrath in all your sea of sorrow. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Some of them have no objection to worship with a poor congregation till they grow rich, and then, forsooth, they must go with the world's church, to mingle with fashion and gentility. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. Inductive Bible study on John 19. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! Jesus is therefore hunted out of the city, beyond the gate, with the will and force of his oven nation, but he journeys not against his own will; even as the lamb goeth as willingly to the shambles as to the meadow, so doth Christ cheerfully take up his cross and go without the camp. He had no sooner said "I thirst," and sipped the vinegar, than he shouted, "It is finished"; and all was over: the battle was fought and the victory won for ever, and our great Deliverer's thirst was the sign of his having smitten the last foe. This cross was a ponderous machine; not so heavy, perhaps, as some pictures would represent it, but still no light burden to a man whose shoulders were raw with the lashes of the Roman scourge. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. Scripture provides a wealth . These solemn sentences have shone like the seven golden candlesticks or the seven stars of the Apocalypse, and have lighted multitudes of men to him who spake them. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. Let us exult as we see our Substitute going through with his work even to the bitter end, and then with a "Consummatum est" returning to his Father, God. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. A phantom, as some have called him, could not suffer in his fashion: but Jesus really suffered, not only the more refined pains of delicate and sensitive minds, but the rougher and commoner pangs of flesh and blood. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. O brother, if he says, "I thirst" and you bring him a lukewarm heart, that is worse than vinegar, for he has said, "I will spue thee out of my mouth." So numerous has the family of man now become, that there is a death every second; and when we know how very smell a proportion of the human race have even nominally received the cross and there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved oh! Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was to be rifled, and himself destroyed, by that crucified Son of man. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." Oh! You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. "Women, behold thy son!" Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." If he carried all the cross, yet he only carried the wood of it; he did not bear the sin which made it such a load. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" He ran and filled a sponge with vinegar: it was the best way he knew of putting a few drops of moisture to the lips of one who was suffering so much; but though he felt a degree of pity, it was such as one might show to a dog; he felt no reverence, but mocked as he relieved. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! Once again, as we think of this "I thirst," which proves our Lord's humanity, let us resolve to shun no denials, but rather court them that we may be conformed to his image. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. IV. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. Think of that! It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. How they led him forth we do not know. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. 29. are they not more like sharp vinegar? What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. John 19:28 . John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. III. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." He hath traversed the mournful way before thee, and every footprint thou leavest in the sodden soil is stamped side by side with his footmarks. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. He saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. Some of you will! They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. So he was thirsting then. As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. He cried, ere he bowed the head which he had held erect amid all his conflict, as one who never yielded, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Add to Cart. Oh! Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. You may die so, you may die now. In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Are you lukewarm? No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! July 2nd, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:26 . He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. He sipped of the vinegar, and he was refreshed, and no sooner has he thrown off the thirst than he shouted like a conqueror, "It is finished," and quitted the field, covered with renown. It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. . There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 1. The Church, the bride of Christ, was there conformed to the image of her Lord; she was there, I say, in Simon, bearing the cross, and in the women weeping and lamenting. Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning either to escape a frown or to win a smile. ye Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favor, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. That little rising ground, which perhaps was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, from its somewhat resembling the crown of a man's skull, was the common place of execution. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Today! I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." 1. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. good God! Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. You carry the cross after him. 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